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Drive On The Road To Disaster Powered By Ethanol

By: GARKO

The real hazard confronting humanity as we move further into the new millennium is that we could convulsely grasp for solutions in our hysteria about global warming which will muck things up even worse than they are right now.
Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make from corn.
Ethanol, of course, is nothing new. American refiners will produce nearly 6 billion gallons of corn ethanol this year, mostly for use as a gasoline additive to make engines burn cleaner. But in the past year, the Senate has plunged America down the toilet by demanding biofuels be the energy source of the future , mandating the production of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022. If you listen to Ethanol people then this is part of a revolution to replace oil addiction (with Ethanol addiction I suppose) . Midwest farmers will get rich, the air will be cleaner, the planet will be cooler, and, best of all, we can tell those greedy sheiks to kick off. As the king of ethanol hype, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, put it recently, "Everything about ethanol is good, good, good."
Three factors are driving the ethanol hype. The first is panic: Many energy experts believe that the world's oil supplies have already peaked or will peak within the next decade. The second is election-year politics. Interestingly enough, the primaries started in Iowa so all the candidates except one or two that have integrity suddenly became huge fans of Ethanol! .
The third factor stoking the ethanol frenzy is the war in Iraq, which has made energy independence a universal political slogan. Unlike coal, another heavily subsidized energy source, ethanol has the added political benefit of elevating the American farmer to national hero. It takes some talent to be such a good spin master that you can put the American farmer growing corn as “the top of the spear on the war against terrorism as a former CIA director (James Woolsey) did but he did it! So, if you love America, how can you not love ethanol?
Well, I will tell you, I love America but that doesn’t equate to loving Ethanol at all! As a gasoline substitute, ethanol has big problems: Its energy density is one-third less than gasoline, which means you have to burn more of it to get the same amount of power. It also has properties that make it impossible to use the existing pipeline infrastructure to transport the Ethanol and it must be distributed by truck or rail, which is tremendously inefficient.
Besides, ethanol is tremendously variable as regards the energy production achievable from different sources of Ethanol. In Brazil, ethanol made from sugar cane has an energy balance of 8-to-1 -- that is, when you add up the fossil fuels used to irrigate, fertilize, grow, transport and refine sugar cane into ethanol, the energy output is eight times higher than the energy inputs. That's a better deal than gasoline, which has an energy balance of 5-to-1. In contrast, the energy balance of corn ethanol is only 1.3-to-1 - making it practically worthless as an energy source. "Corn ethanol is essentially a way of recycling natural gas," says Robert Rapier, an oil-industry engineer who runs the R-Squared Energy Blog.
But as today's "New York Times" reports, some people living in River Bend Farm, a suburb of Alabama lying near a biodiesel plant, observed a black viscuous slime that was fouling the Black Warrior River. The junk was four hundred and fifty times higher than regulations for black yuck goo of this nature allow and the stuff had drifted two miles from its source.
It was a unholy mix of oil and glycerin, waste from biodiesel production. They deplete oxygen in waters with rapidity, killing fish. And it is equally deadly to birds as the Valdez spill. Alabama isn't alone in this problem. In January a Missouri businessman was indicted by a grand jury for a discharge that left 25,000 fish dead and commited genocide on the population of fat pocketbook mussels, an endangered species. Can you say... "OOOPS"???
More recently, a study from the University of British Columbia calculated that a boost in corn production for ethanol will widen the so-called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, an area with such a small amount of oxygen that sea life literally can't breathe and dies. And today's "Des Moines Register" stated that Cargill, Inc., is being hit with a $100,000 penalty--the biggest ever charged an Iowa biofuels plant--for multiple environmental misdeeds surrounding illegal discharges.
Thanks in large part to the ethanol craze, the price of beef, poultry and pork in the United States rose more than three percent during the first five months of this year. In some parts of the country, hog farmers now find it cheaper to fatten their animals on trail mix, french fries and chocolate bars. And since America provides two-thirds of all global corn exports, the impact is being felt around the world. In Mexico, tortilla prices have jumped sixty percent, leading to food riots. In Europe, butter prices have spiked forty percent, and pork prices in China are up twenty percent. By 2025, according to Runge and Senauer, rising food prices caused by the demand for ethanol and other biofuels could cause as many as 600 million more people to go hungry worldwide.
Still, biofuels are, at best, a huge gamble. They may help cushion the fall when cheap oil vanishes, but if we rely on ethanol to save the day, we could soon find ourselves forced to make a choice between feeding our SUVs and feeding children in the Third World. And we all know how that decision will go.
Sorry, people, if I have upset or alarmed you. It is all about confronting the truth so that effective action can be taken. And I do have good news!
WATER4GAS is providing information for a nominal fee which consumers can use in their garage or wherever to build a small device which infuses hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their car or truck runs on.
What this does is make bite sized particles out of the ones that the engine uses as fuel. Therefore it is able to use much more of the fuel.
With WATER4GAS you can minimumly expect to reduce your fuel consumption by thirty to fifty percent or significantly more. Those molecules must have been pretty "blankin'" huge in some systems before. But with WATER4GAS they are made consumable so you can reduce your fuel consumption.
It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner.
This information has been purchased by over NINE THOUSAND people already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?

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Songwriter, entrepreneur, consumer advocate and activist, GARKO, advises that presently you cannot buy a car that runs on water but that the ones coming on the market in the next five years are planning to charge too much for the conversion. But he can show you how to convert your car to run on water which is the best engine modification to save gas For a list of current fuel prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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